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  • KimberleyChris
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    Should I say at the interview:

    "I only want a job with you so I can save up enough money to get the hell out of Cumbria, and when I am gone they can drop the bomb on it as far as I'm concerned"

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  • TheFaQQer
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    Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
    I read the 1st post, guess the rest is lefty whinging and hand wringing sprinkled with piss taking and boasting and then read the last post.

    Usually works.
    At least you've progressed to reading the end as well.

    Normally, Daily Mail readers don't get that far.

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  • Peoplesoft bloke
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    Originally posted by The Spartan View Post
    It might be basic stuff if you receive it where as I do not, therefore why would I actually know what it has changed to regardless of name it's still the same.
    Except you quoted both names as if they were two separate benefits and as part of a comment masquerading as some kind of infomed comment when it was in fact bollocks

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  • DimPrawn
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    Originally posted by KimberleyChris View Post
    Oh well,you missed our agenda for when we take over. Not long now.

    Get ready for the sound of clogs at 5:30am, and the sight of flat caps, braces and whippets in a street near you :-)




    (Nurse !!!...He's out of bed again...)

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  • stek
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    Originally posted by KimberleyChris View Post
    Oh well,you missed our agenda for when we take over. Not long now.

    Get ready for the sound of clogs at 5:30am, and the sight of flat caps, braces and whippets in a street near you :-)



    You we're lucky! When I were a lad we had to......

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  • KimberleyChris
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    Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
    I read the 1st post, guess the rest is lefty whinging and hand wringing sprinkled with piss taking and boasting and then read the last post.

    Usually works.
    Oh well,you missed our agenda for when we take over. Not long now.

    Get ready for the sound of clogs at 5:30am, and the sight of flat caps, braces and whippets in a street near you :-)




    (Nurse !!!...He's out of bed again...)

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  • TimberWolf
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    Things will be better once we are poorer than the rest of Europe and so far we appear to be winning the race to the bottom.

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  • DimPrawn
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    Originally posted by TimberWolf View Post
    Can we have a summary? I only read the last page.
    I read the 1st post, guess the rest is lefty whinging and hand wringing sprinkled with piss taking and boasting and then read the last post.

    Usually works.
    Last edited by DimPrawn; 23 January 2012, 22:13.

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  • TimberWolf
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    Originally posted by KimberleyChris View Post

    I give up. It's just like the last 74 posts never happened, isn't it?
    Can we have a summary? I only read the last page.

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  • DimPrawn
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    Originally posted by KimberleyChris View Post
    "Move to the SE then. Even sasguru with the intellect of a gnat earns > £200K.

    Secure a job and then rent a house".

    I give up. It's just like the last 74 posts never happened, isn't it?
    You don't honestly expect me to read all that crap about poor people do you?

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  • KimberleyChris
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    "Move to the SE then. Even sasguru with the intellect of a gnat earns > £200K.

    Secure a job and then rent a house".

    I give up. It's just like the last 74 posts never happened, isn't it?

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  • DimPrawn
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    Originally posted by KimberleyChris View Post
    Well, in the Soviet Union it was half-way to slavery. We could do better.

    At the risk of drawing a comparison with 'Arbeit Macht Frei', I would (after nearly two years on the bench) tell you with some authority that paid work is freedom, and life on the dole is slavery, depression and misery.

    I hope it never happens to you.
    Move to the SE then. Even sasguru with the intellect of a gnat earns > £200K.

    Secure a job and then rent a house.

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  • KimberleyChris
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    Well, in the Soviet Union it was half-way to slavery. We could do better.

    At the risk of drawing a comparison with 'Arbeit Macht Frei', I would (after nearly two years on the bench) tell you with some authority that paid work is freedom, and life on the dole is slavery, depression and misery.

    I hope it never happens to you.

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  • stek
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    Originally posted by KimberleyChris View Post
    I daresay that we will get the usual "Poles doing work that the Brits are too bone idle to take" guff. But like I said, with high employment, you could allocate somebody a job.
    Like the Soviet Union !

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  • KimberleyChris
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    I daresay that we will get the usual "Poles doing work that the Brits are too bone idle to take" guff. But like I said, with high employment, you could allocate somebody a job.

    I wish someone would allocate me one, but even the minimum-wage dumps are shutting down here now, and they would have to sack somebody else to do it.

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